The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 06, June, 1888 eBook

Among the recent issues of the press, none has been
more effective and deservedly popular than the pamphlet
entitled, “OUR COUNTRY,” written by our
esteemed friend, Rev. Josiah Strong, D.D. It has
aroused public attention in a remarkable degree, and
has opened the way for a career of most promising
usefulness to the author.

Our only regret in reading these stirring pages, has
arisen from the fact, that in its survey it leaves
almost entirely out of account nearly one third part
of our country, namely, the South, a part, too, that
contains as many elements of future trouble to the
nation, and elements, too, that if properly dealt
with, can minister as largely to the nation’s
future prosperity, as any other portion. Our object
in penning this item is to suggest that some man of
equal diligence in collecting facts, and of equal
skill in handling them, shall write a book entitled,
“Our Whole Country,” that shall
omit no part of it.

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A SAMPLE OF SOUTHERN CHURCH WORK.

The Rev. G.W. McClellan, a graduate of Fisk University
and recently a student at Hartford Theological Seminary,
has formed a “Boys’ Christian Association”
in connection with his church work in Louisville.
The boys meet on Friday evenings for literary exercises,
and the following are some of the questions debated
this winter.

1. Resolved, That Washington was a greater
general than Grant.

2. Resolved, That capital punishment ought
to be abolished.

3. Resolved, That strikes are right and necessary.

4. Resolved, That boys, as a rule, after graduation
from the High School, should go to College.

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EXTRACTS FROM EXAMINATION PAPERS.

Question. What was the Dred Scott decision?

Answer. “The Dred Scott decision declared
that slave owners could carry their slaves into any
territory except their own.” {156}

Another Answer. “Dred Scott decision was,
that protected tariff should be kept out of the territories.”

Question. What are ocean currents?

Answer. “The Ocean currant is a celebrated
meal-storm on the coast of
Norway.”

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A STRAW.

A few days since, there was an examination of candidates
for positions as teachers in the New Orleans public
schools. Four of our Straight University girls
presented themselves, three graduates and one an undergraduate,
and all passed the examination, receiving respectively
94, 93, 92 and 87 per cent., and three were at once
given good positions.